Hi Chad,

> (Moving to FB general, CCing you in case you are not a member)

I'm pretty much a member anywhere ;-)

> :: How about something very simple, like this:
> :: http://www.upscene-mirror.demon.nl/files/IBSQLWorksheet.zip
>
> Yes. Something very similar to that.

Well, you got the talk going again. There are other options than
creating a new one from scratch. There's also a fair bit of talk on
the "ffmembers" list (Firebird Foundation members) about the
subject. Perhaps we - as a community - can move forward again.

> :: Alternatively, there has been talk about bundling open source
> :: tools with the basic Firebird install, but this always was rejected.
>
> Something should be resolved here. Inaction is a problem it appears.

See above ;-)

> :: It a simple console - like my example - is all that's needed, I'm

willing

> :: to maintain the one in my example.
>
> That's all that's needed. Something like IBConsonle. But FB has to commit

to

> something and ship it in the install - that appears to be the hardest

part,

> not the creation of the tool itself.

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
Database Workbench - developer tool for InterBase, Firebird, MySQL & MS SQL
Server.
Upscene Productions
http://www.upscene.com